Me, I love deadlines – and a daily deadline is the best. Long term projects I end up doing at the last minute anyway so they feel like a daily deadline.
Take this speech I am giving tomorrow night. I’ve known about it for weeks. And I’ve been gathering bits and pieces to put in it over that time and doing a lot of thinking but I’ve not been able to gear myself up to write it until tonight. Tonight. I am ashamed to write it down. But it is just the way I’ve always been.
The more nervous I am the harder I find it to get started. I’m a bit nervous. Public speaking is nothing like radio.
Interestingly it’s the opposite with Groover – the more nervous he is, the more he prepares until he over-prepares and (he says) loses all his spontaneity.
No danger of me over-preparing.
Having said that, because I’ve lived with my topic for so long now and because I’m interested in it – I found it very easy to write and hopefully deliver tomorrow.
I was the same with exams – especially the big ones – and job interviews.
And I know I’m doing it! I just can’t seem to make myself change my behaviour.
So what about you? Are you a last-minute Laurissa or a pre-prepared Pete?
